After Hollywood, the NFL, and many corporations threatened to boycott the Peach state over House Bill 757, which would allow faith-based organizations to discriminate against the LGBT community, Governor Nathan Deal has walked back his state’s very bad plan.

Early in graduate school, I still believed literature could save us, so I clung to a narrative device that seemed to promise deliverance: focalization. It’s not an especially sexy term; it means that an author writes from the perspective of one character, rather than from narrative omniscience—narrowing the reader’s…

At this point, if anyone on the internet tells me that a video is going to "blow my mind," or that I need to "wait for it," or that I should prepare to "change the way I think," I immediately want to run an ultra-marathon down an abandoned mine shaft and into the earth's molten core. I despise a "big reveal." How dare…

At some point or another, someone or maybe lots of someones are going to dislike you. Hell, they might even dislike the entirety of your digestive system that we call guts, to the extent that they will use the word hate. Yes, there are many levels of hate, but I'm really talking about the lowercase kind. It's not…

If you're ready to cry into your evening bowl of ice cream bon bons, grab all the Kleenex ever made, and get into this Anti-Defamation League video. It imagines a world that still has Martin Luther King, Anne Frank, Matthew Shepard, and many other wonderful souls because it's a world without hate crimes. I'm…

On Friday, police in Moscow were searching for about two dozen masked men who'd stormed into one of the city's most popular gay bars on Thursday, Coming Out Day, and brutalized several patrons, mostly women. According to the New York Times, more than ten people were injured, including three women and a man who all had…

On the one hand, your pet can't help but explode with excitement whenever they see you because you are the most wonderful person. On the other hand, they deeply resent you for not spending your every waking moment giving them belly rubs, handing them a constant stream of treats, and walking them all at the same…

There's a certain amount of hate that's inspired by having to shop in a big box store like Best Buy or Walmart. The endless aisles, the bad lighting, the overwhelming amount of goods, and the often-terrible service can all make for a soul-deadening experience. And when someone rams into your leg with their cart, it…

Hate-reading is an activity that's, well, exactly what it says it is. Have you ever found yourself visiting a website, Twitter feed, or Facebook page for the express purpose of ridiculing — or indulging your disdain for —the author and/or content? Then you're hate-reading. And unless you're a saint with limited…

Concerned Tennessee lawmaker Richard Floyd has withdrawn a bill that would have made it illegal for transsexual women to use ladies' restrooms in his state, but that doesn't mean that he wouldn't kick a mudhole in any depraved pervert that tried to go in the "wrong" bathroom. I'm not an expert on law-type stuff and…

"A repressed and unfeminine lump, vulgar and shallow to the core." "Just pushing for your own feminist vagina agenda regardless of the facts." "We used to confine people to sanitariums for these kinds of outbursts." These are just a few of the responses three female writers have gotten when they tried to express their…

The Westboro Baptist Church is one of America's most infamous hate-mongers, using the bible and Christianity (at least, their brand of Christianity) to justify savage and hateful messages targeted at almost every group imaginable: homosexuals, abortionists, Muslims, Jews, Roman Catholics, even the United States…

On March 7, 23-year-old Justin Alesna went into a Detroit gas station to buy cigarettes. He left, instead, with a fractured skull—thanks to a hateful, gay-bashing stranger. Justin begged for help. Nobody listened. Here, he tells his story.

The designer who so memorably told two strangers, "I love Hitler. People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, you'd all be fucking gassed," may be at an undisclosed location, receiving treatment for alcoholism, but his French lawyer has oh so very many things to say on the record to Israeli news…

Some people do not care for winter wonderlands, silver bells or "merry" anything. Some people are bitchy and bitter, perpetually pissed-off or generally annoyed. What we have here are gifts for Grinches, Scrooges, the enraged and the ill-tempered.